China, Russia, Mongolia, Iran, Turkey… still use uranium mine gulags as death camps. The USA, UK, France… use depleted uranium to fuel terrorism and raise taxes. Uranium is a death sentence in mass internal contamination (dust). The damage increases over time (latency of onset because decay products of U238 have progressively shorter half lives, alpha radiation is responsible for destruction, helium nucleii are heavy and very fast). Tax money from collective support to governments after terrorist attacks (DU makes the Middle East an inferno) is diverted in pockets of heads of state through overbilling in tendering and retrocession of the excess on offshore accounts (their own, not the companies'). Why is depleted uranium not needed for armour piercing ? Nuclear reactors work like any fire : carbon and hydrogen increase energy output. As in a Diesel motor, pressure also helps. Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass#Changing_the_point_of_criticality -> "Varying the density of the mass The higher the density, the lower the critical mass." -The production of LIGHT at the impact of antitank weapons proves it. This is used in ALL nuclear bombs. And it allows to reach a much more limited supercriticity with very little pieces of highly enriched uranium or plutonium. A few grams only, that are used indeed in all CONVENTIONAL antitank warheads. So they do not need DU. DU is added since Vietnam for genocide and ecocide ! Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria… Even a retired French Army general (P-M Gallois, father of the French nuclear deterrence in the 50s) said in 1995 mass use of DU is a "crime against humanity" !

The Soviet secret death camps were well known in the West and hidden for obvious reasons – les camps de la mort secrets soviétiques étaient largement connus des exécutifs de l’Ouest et dissimulés pour des raisons évidentes

Shifrin did testify twice in front of the US Congress and a documentary (The Nuclear Gulag was produced). The CIA’s website reports it :

The CIA knew and even reports it… but deep silence of all US presidents

Here’s even more : a 1986 Associated Press report presenting concisely the facts with the Lermontov (Beshtau) mine closed, according to Wikipedia, in 1985. In other words the press only reported too late ; but let’s insist on the bottom of the press release :

Shifrin mentions 32 uranium mines among a total of 43 death camps (the rest constituted mostly of nuclear plants and glass or mica grinding facilities where workers also don’t have any protective gear), and these uranium mines all have between 1000 and 5000 workers with a death rate of 100%, here is more proof and I bring more in my earlier article linked above. The press release demonstrates everything, the high number of workers, the delivering of new trainloads (so new masses of people) and closed walkways which justify how this really was the true equivalent of Auschwitz. It’s very presumable that all the victims were incinerated in heating systems.

A true equivalent of Auschwitz that was absolutely hidden, buried in secrecy after that press release, absent of the famous Black Book of Communism (which makes very limited references to “radium death camps”, points to uranium mines, but does not research that while the book by Shifrin was well available and they should have read it – same comments for Anne Applebaum’s Gulag which has a few lines about a single uranium death camp in Czechoslovakia). It is quite sure that satellites picked up images of these death camps very early, through advanced spyplanes such as U2s and imaging satellites that were deployed from the early 1960s. Governments of the West concealed it because of one obvious reason : depleted uranium weapons ; and the more general risks associated with all nuclear accidents where uranium or other alpha emitting nanoparticulates are involved. It’s difficult to make a case for or against the complicity of these researchers ; the single truth is that our governments knew it but concealed it because of their own crimes against humanity.